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SubjectRe: [PATCH resend] hid-magicmouse: Increase evdev buffer size
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 02:55:03PM -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> On 04/04/2011 02:13 PM, Jeffrey Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> >> I'd happuly take Chase's patch, but want to make sure that we don't cause
> >> any changes that would make backwards compatilibity an issue later.
> >
> > There should be no compatibility issues. However, we might be better
> > off in the long term taking (some variation of) these patches instead.
>
> I like the proposed changes, but I want to ensure stable kernel releases
> aren't left out of the fix for hid-magicmouse. I don't know the best way
> forward, but here's one possibility:
>
> 1. Apply my patch to manually set the buffer size hint
> 2. It gets sent to stable trees due to the 'Cc: stable@kernel.org' line
> 3. Apply Jeffrey's patches, including a reversion of my buffer size hint
>
> Obviously the extra application and reversion is odd, but this seems the
> easiest way forward given that the patches already exist and can be
> applied without issue.
>

Or, once Jeffrey's patches hit mainline, send your change to stable with
the explanation why it is needed for stable but not for mainline.

Thanks.

--
Dmitry


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